Pioneer BD-R UD04FAL

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Hello everyone,

I've got myself a UD04FAL that I want to use it for archiving some of my family photos and videos on 25gb mdisc.
I did some testing with it and seems to behave decently on 25gb bd-re (verbatim) and 25gb bd-r ritek, but on mdisc it does not seem to be so good.

All discs area readable but scanning them resulted in higher than expected errors. Is this normal for this type of unit ? Would a new firmware help with better burning strategies ?

Many thanks for any info or help.
Best regards,
Cristian




I downloaded DVRtool and below is the report.

Drive Information:
Model Name: PIONEER BD-RW BDR-UD04
Firmware Rev: 1.21
Extra Info: 18/04/26
Serial Number : SFDL006453WL
Buffer Size: 4000 kiB

Additional Drive Information:
Label Code: ----
Hardware Rev : SAT 8A10
Kernel Type : ID19
Firmware Type : ID19
Kernel Version : 0000
Drive is in normal mode.
Firmware flashing support: NO
Firmware dumping support : NO

Drive Capabilities:
CD-ROM : R BD-ROM : R
CD-R : R/W BD-R : R/W
CD-RW : R/W BD-R XL : R/W
DVD-ROM : R BD-RE : R/W
DVD-R : R/W BD-RE XL : R/W
DVD-R DL : R/W HD DVD-ROM : -
DVD-RW : R/W HD DVD-R : -
DVD+R : R/W HD DVD-R DL : -
DVD+R DL : R/W HD DVD-RW : -
DVD+RW : R/W LabelFlash : NO
DVD-RAM : R/W LightScribe : NO

Drive Region Settings:

RPC Scheme : RPC-2
Current Region : 2
Changes Left : 4 (available to user)
Resets Left : 4 (available only to vendor)
Region State : Region is set